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Author/Creator:L., S. G., artist.
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Title:[Album of drawings of Bletchingley, 1828-1829] [art original] / S.G.L.
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Production:[England], 1828-1829.
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Physical Description:62 drawings in 1 album : pencil, wash, and watercolor, some heightened with chalk ; binding 26 x 38 cm
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Yale Holdings
Holdings Record Display
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Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating)
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Call Number: Folio 64 Su7 828
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Status:Not Checked Out
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Notes:For further information, consult library staff.
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Digital version
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Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating)
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Notes:Title from contemporary manuscript note on front cover.
Album bound in three-quarter leather with marbled-paper boards, with the title written in black ink on front board: Bletchingly S.G.L. 1828 1829. Also with a dark-green morocco spine label gilt-stamped: S.G.L. Bletchingley 1828-29. On front pastedown: a label manuscript note "Laura" scored through and then "Alice" written above.
In English.
Purchased from Jarndyce, December 2019.
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Summary:An album of amateur drawings, with scenes in Kent, East Sussex, Hertfordshire and Surrey. The artist, only identified with the initials 'S.G.L.', provides titles and dates for the majority of the drawings. The first group (thirteen in all) dated 1828 are views in Kent, Sussex, and Hertfordshire, including Leeds Castle, Hythe, Sandgate, Rye, Pevensey Castle, Tunbridge Wells, St. Albans, and Hatfield. The second, larger group of drawings are scenes in and round the village of Bletchingley (sometimes Bletchingly) in Surrey, depicting village life -- for example, the 'Church Yard', 'Parsonage', 'Farm Yard', landscapes with farm houses, country lanes, bridges, and people fishing, andc. -- and include both people and animals. Other views of places in the vicinity are scenes in Nutfield, London Road, Bletchingley from London Road, Rabbit Heath, et cetera All the drawings in or around Bletchingley (thirty-nine in total) are dated between August 14th and October 14th 1829. Several of the drawings are on blue paper and are highlighted with white chalk, conveying a nocturnal quality to the scene. A final group of ten undated, untitled drawings also depict rural scenes, presumably in southeastern England.
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Variant and related titles:Cover title: Bletchingley S.G.L. 1828-1829
- Format:Visual Material
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Incomplete contents:Leeds Castle 4 April 1828 -- Hythe 5 Ap. 1828 -- Sandgate 5 Ap. 1828 -- Rye 6 Apr. 1828 -- Pevensey Castle 7 Ap. 1828 -- Tunbridge Wells April 1828 -- St. Albans 11 May 1828 -- High Rocks Tunbridge Wells Sep. 1828 -- Hatfield 1828 -- Bletchingly (16 drawings) -- Nutfield Sept. 16 1829.
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Cite as:S.G.L. Album of Drawings of Bletchingley in Surrey and its Surrounding Area. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
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Subjects:Country lif.
Bridges.
Castles & palaces--England--Surrey.
Fishing--England.
City & town life--England--Surrey.
Villages.
Bletchingley (England)--Pictorial works.
East Sussex (England)--Pictorial works.
Kent (England)--Pictorial works.
Hertfordshire (England)--Pictorial works.
Surrey (England)--Pictorial works.
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Genre/Form:Pencil drawings.
Wash drawings.
Watercolors.
Views.
Landscape drawings.
Amateur works.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/14745516